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Faces from the land of long ago.

These stunning images are early photographs of some of the men who bravely fought for their country in the Revolutionary War some 237 years ago. Images of Americans who fought in the Revolution are exceptionally rare because few of the Patriots of 1775-1783 lived until the dawn of practical photography in the early 1840s. These early photographs – known as daguerreotypes – are exceptionally rare camera-original, fully-identified photographs of veterans of the War for Independence – the war that established the United States. The majority have been compiled by Utah-based journalist Joe Baumam, who spent three decades researching and compiling...

These stunning images are early photographs of some of the men who bravely fought for their country in the Revolutionary War some 237 years ago. Images of Americans who fought in the Revolution are exceptionally rare because few of the Patriots of 1775-1783 lived until the dawn of practical photography in the early 1840s. These early photographs – known as daguerreotypes – are exceptionally rare camera-original, fully-identified photographs of veterans of the War for Independence – the war that established the United States.

This photograph of Boulevard du Temple in Paris was made in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, the brilliant guy that invented the daguerreotype process of photography. Aside from its distinction of being a super early photograph, it’s also the first photograph to ever include a human being. Because the image required an exposure time of over ten minutes, all the people, carriages, and other moving things disappear from the scene. However, in the bottom left hand corner is a man who just so happened to stay somewhat still during the shot — he was having his shoes shined.

In 1987, Albert Kaplan, who was then living in Paris, sought the opinion of Dr. Claude N. Frechette, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at the American Hospital in Paris, to examine a daguerreotype Kaplan believed was the first known photographic image ever made of the youthful future-president Abraham Lincoln. As WND reported, Kaplan purchased the daguerreotype in 1977 from a group of 100 being sold by an art gallery on 57th Street in New York City. The sales receipt described the daguerreotype simply as "Portrait of a Young Man." Frechette presented his findings in a 13-page footnoted forensic report entitled...

Her hair severely parted, Constanze Weber Mozart looks unsmilingly away from the camera. She appears to be staring at her feet. Next to her is Max Keller, a Swiss composer and old family friend, surrounded by his daughters and the rest of his family. In the background is a cottage with two garden-facing windows. The newly discovered black and white image is the only photograph ever taken of Constanze Mozart, the widow of the Austrian composer and genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The previously unknown print was discovered in archives in the southern German town of Altötting, local authorities said on...

Hand-tinted quarter plate daguerreotype of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln taken March 4, 1861. No bids will be accepted unless prior approval is granted. Any potential bidder is asked to contact seller before attempting to place bid. The 'mirror image' of the daguerreotype has been reversed to show the Lincolns as they actually appeared. Two links have been provided at bottom of listing to view additional photos and the actual responses from the 'experts'. Exhaustive biographical accounts covering every aspect of Abraham Lincoln’s life from birth to death were recorded for the historical record soon after his assassination by many...

Invented in 1839, daguerreotype images were created using a highly polished silver-coated copper plate that was sensitive to light when exposed to an iodine vapour. Subjects had to pose without moving for two to three minutes for the image to imprint on the plate, which was then developed as a photograph using a mercury vapour that was heated. Kozachuk conducts much of her research at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) and previously published results in scientific journals in 2017 and earlier this year. In those articles, the team members identified the chemical composition of the tarnish and how it changed...

A daguerreotype of what really can be called "Old Broadway" — showing the famous New York City thoroughfare as the 1840s country road it once was — is going up for sale at Sotheby's auction house. In the early to mid-19th century, between the American Revolution and the Starbucks revolution, the Upper West Side of Manhattan was open countryside, with large estates, white picket fences and wagons trundling along a rutted road already known as Broadway. Photographic evidence of that era is scant, as most studios offering the newfangled daguerreotypes were located several miles away at the island's populated lower...